Comparisons of the genomes of new giant phages isolated from environmental Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains of different regions. Journal List J Virol v. The phage was amplified as previously described 13 , and DNA was extracted according to reference No discrepancies between the and Sanger data were observed. No DNA homology was observed with any phage. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.

Briefly, Lu11 belongs to the Myoviridae family, with an icosahedral head of nm and a contractile tail nm in length and 20 nm wide. Please review our privacy policy. Mattheusa A.

Kropinskie and R. Burkal’tseva MV, et al. Sambrook J, Russell D. As such, Lu11 can be considered phylogenetically unique within the Myoviridae and indicates the diversity of the giant phages within this family. Support Center Support Center. Comparisons of the genomes x301 new giant phages isolated from environmental Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains of different regions.

Comparison of new giant bacteriophages OBP and Lu11 of soil pseudomonads with bacteriophages of phiKZ-supergroup of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. No tRNAs were discovered.